[newbie] Lots of fatal system crashes.

[Martin Barnard]

Hi,
 I was wondering if you could help my friend, he has installed Mandrake on his
system and for some reason it keeps crashing (SIGHUP 11) when he does things
in X (the whole thing rebooting).
His system is:
Pentium 166MMX
Diamond Stealth 3D2000 (2MB) Video card
32 MB RAM
Generic 32x CDRom
6 GIG Quantum HD
Any suggestions / help would be appreciated as he is getting very fed up with
the whole deal (he has tried 4 different Linux flavours) and has tried
reinstalling numerous times.